In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about Bulgaria demanding €400 million from Russia's Gazprom for suspended gas supplies, Swedish Social Democrats wanting ID verification on social media on EU level to fight trolls, and so much more.
Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico remains in a serious but stable condition and is able to speak a little, the country's president-elect said on Thursday (16 May), a day after an assassination attempt that sent shock waves across Europe.
Mit 14 Prozent in den Umfragen macht Raphaël Glucksmann, der Spitzenkandidat der französischen Sozialistischen Partei (PS), die Unterstützung der Ukraine zur Priorität seiner Kampagne. Bei anderen internationalen Krisen, wie dem Krieg in Gaza, bleibt er dagegen differenzierter.
Finance ministers from the Group of Seven major democracies meeting in Italy next week will back a EU plan to use the income from frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine's war effort, an Italian Treasury official said on Thursday (16 May).
Over the past five years, Ursula von der Leyen’s College of Commissioners has presented a long list of legislative texts covering issues ranging from Green Deal legislation to defence industrial programmes.
Kosovo’s last-minute bid to placate Germany and get its application for membership of the Strasbourg-based human rights body, the Council of Europe approved has been attacked by Serbian President Aleksander Vucic and criticised by Kosovo's President Vjosa Osmani.
Bulgarian state-owned gas company Bulgargas is seeking more than €400 million in damages from Russian gas monopoly Gazprom Export-Import for the sudden suspension of natural gas supplies at the end of April 2022.
The end-2023 MEPs failure to approve a comprehensive reform of the rules on pesticides epitomizes the difficulties of the Green Deal in agrifood policy. Two big agrifood policy files are pending for the next Parliament.
NATO's top commander said on Thursday (16 May) he did not believe Russia's military has deployed enough troops to make a strategic breakthrough in the region around Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine.
Le président de la République le vante, le ministre délégué à l’Énergie l'encense : le caractère décarboné du mix électrique français serait un atout sans commune mesure pour attirer les investissements étrangers, notamment dans l'industrie. La réalité est plus complexe.
Georgia's controversial 'foreign agent' law profoundly changes the country's relationship with its Western partners and the EU should take the outcome of the upcoming elections as a basis to reassess its ties with Tbilisi, the country's President Salome Zourabishvili told Euractiv.
Parliament in ex-Soviet Moldova voted on Thursday (16 May) to hold a referendum in October on European Union membership, the cornerstone of President Maia Sandu's policies, alongside a presidential election.
The left-wing to far-left platform Sumar and its former ally, the far-left Podemos party, have pressured the government of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to prevent Madrid from sending weapons to Israel on a ship that was due to dock in the south-east Spanish port of Cartagena, Murcia, on Wednesday.
The planned televised showdown between Democratic Party leader Elly Schlein and Fratelli d’Italia leader Giorgia Meloni, initially set for 23 May, has been cancelled, as other parties, both in opposition and in coalition, raised objections about fairness and are now seeking to have a debate involving all party leaders.
Swedish Social Democrats are calling on the European Union to introduce an identity verification requirement across social media to prevent the creation of fake accounts, former prime minister Magdalena Andersson and socialist MEP Heléne Fritzon said on Thursday, following the recent revelations of alleged far-right troll farms.
As the Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico continues to fight for his life after Wednesday’s assassination attempt, his Polish counterpart Donald Tusk made public one of the death threats he received on social media.
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